Re: WinXP Pro SP2 Booting Issue - Toshiba Core2 Duo Laptop

How are the Event Viewer Reports coming along?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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lemaech43 wrote:
While this can't be ruled out, I'm puzzled that the system functions
correctly:

1. When recovered from the Restore Point I manually created on 11/01.
2. If left up (not shut down) after recovery in Step #1.
3. Returns from Standby (power save) mode after running as in Step
#2.

Since I'm a computer engineer (not Windows or PCs), hardware seems a
low probability as root cause of this problem but obviously not 0%.

Thanks.

"DL" wrote:

If you experienced problems with the earlier o/s & you now have
more, that might tend to indicate a hardware problem

"lemaech43" <lemaech43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:22190013-9E30-4111-AFDC-725B57C25B6E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As I mentioned in response to Patrick: I was experiencing some
problems that
didn't seem repairable with Toshiba's Recovery Disk. The puzzle is
that the
sytem functioned fine for sometime then began to show the problem
described.



"bojimbo26@xxxxxxx" wrote:

On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 14:24:01 -0800, lemaech43
<lemaech43@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My Toshiba Satellite (T7200 Core2 Duo, 100 GB SATA HD, WinXP Pro
SP2) laptop
was purchased with 1 GB DDR2 (667 MHz) SODIMM and upgraded almost
immediately
to 2 GB RAM, similar speed, etc. Office 2003 Pro, Visio 2003 Pro,
MS Project
2002 Pro, IE7, Adobe Reader 8.11, and Webroot SpySweeper were
installed. Since this laptop is used primarily for accessing my
company's internet, employer furnished Norton Client Antivirus
and Firewall (latest updates) and
Mozilla 1.7.13 browser were also installed.

The system worked reasonably well, until I installed a retail
version of WinXP Pro SP2. Major issues/resolutions were:

1. WinXP SP2 patches wouldn't install with Windows Update.
2. The System wouldn't boot (hung in Windows Start Up Screen)
3. Problem #3 was resolved for awhile after installing "Hotfix" in
KB909095.
4. Problem #2 occurred several times since installation of
"Hotfix".
5. Resolution, which has been temporary, has been to boot into
Safe Mode and restore from a previous System Restore point.
6. I created a System Restore Point on 11/01/07 after several days
of "successful" booting.
7. The system no longer boots successfully. I must boot into Safe
Mode and
manually restore from the Restore Point created on 11/01/07.

I am stumped and have run out of ideas, short of resorting to
installing from the WinXP SP2 Pro Recovery Disk. This is a
drastic option, since the
user information states that the C partition is destroyed, thereby
requiring
re-installing all of my applications and completely reconfiguring
the Laptop.
Any options that avoid what is essentially a clean install would
be greatly
appreciated.

Thanks for your assistance.

It was bought with winxp pro sp2 and then you installed retail
version winxp pro sp2 ? ( 2 os`s )


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